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This week’s award for grossest act goes to the ATP Tour players

It’s one thing when a sport either ignores or is oblivious to whatever is surrounding a certain player or individual. It’s quite another when they know and just don’t care. Such is the case with this week’s announcement that the ATP Tour players had chosen Alexander Zverev to their players’ council....

by Sam Fels|the ATP Tour

|Thu Jan 11 2024

Cutter Gauthier forcing the Flyers' hand could be start of a new trend in the NHL

There isn’t a lot of leverage for any player who gets drafted in our four major sports. Football players aren’t going to sit and do nothing for a year. High school baseball players, or even college juniors, can go back to school. Basketball players don’t have even that much. ...

by Sam Fels|Cutter Gauthier

|Wed Jan 10 2024

Michigan finally lives up to its view of itself

Ever since I got older than college, I have felt that college sports are a cesspool that should have been abolished long ago. At least the major ones. If the NBA and NFL want a developmental league, let them pay for it. But there are some pulls from childhood that never go away, including the one fr...

by Sam Fels|Michigan

|Tue Jan 09 2024

Everyone has a gimmick in the NFL. Until they don’t

The NFL season zips by, which might be one of the hundreds of reasons it remains our national religion. There isn’t really time to get bored with it and everything that happens in it feels truly important. Which means any team that can string a few good weeks together has turned some mythical corner...

by Sam Fels|the NFL

|Mon Jan 08 2024

ESPN didn’t say Aaron Rodgers was dumb, they said his joke was dumb

The firestorm engulfing ESPN is a product of its own doing, which is what makes all of this Pat McAfee-Aaron Rodgers drama so funny. The worldwide leader hired comic relief and, shockingly, he simultaneously lit Disney and Bristol ablaze from Indiana. In case you missed the fallout from Rodgers insi...

by Sean Beckwith|Aaron Rodgers

|Sat Jan 06 2024

John Fisher's move of A's may have a snag; Jim Harbaugh avoids a choke job; the strange case of Luke Littler

There’s generally little hope for fans when it’s already been announced that their team will move to another city. That hope evaporates more when a league approves it, as MLB has done with the A’s move to Vegas. And yet, there’s always a sliver of light that can’t be extinguished when an owner is so...

by Deadspin Bot|Jim Harbaugh

|Sat Jan 06 2024

The Warriors hear the sound of inevitability

When Rome was burning, there wasn’t a definitive moment when it all collapsed. A definitive “BOOM” where everyone can say, “Well, that’s it for the Romans. Good run.” Had there been, it might have sounded like this:...

by Sam Fels|Tim Duncan

|Fri Jan 05 2024

Luke Littler: 16-year-old dart prodigy, or Robin Williams from <em>Jack</em>?

The darts world is abuzz over Luke Littler, a 16-year-old prodigy on the verge of winning the World Dart Championship. The Englishman burst onto the scene in this tournament, going from relative unknown to the sport’s Bobby Fischer (minus the racism and genius though I’m not sure those two can be tr...

by Sean Beckwith|Littler

|Wed Jan 03 2024

John Fisher might not have the money to move the A’s to Vegas

by Sam Fels|John Fisher

|Wed Jan 03 2024

Michigan’s talent level stops another Jim Harbaugh dry heave

There were many who had their headlines and stories written, piling on a third-straight CFP semifinal loss for Jim Harbaugh on top of his lost Super Bowl and two lost NFC Championship games. Nice sets come in threes and all that. And he still may add that next Monday. ...

by Sam Fels|Jim Harbaugh

|Tue Jan 02 2024

I love it when Dan Campbell gets that crazy look in his eyes

From the jump, Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell has shown zero interest in moral victories, and Saturday in Dallas was further proof of that. Down 20-19 with 23 ticks, the coach eschewed the tie and went for two and the win three consecutive times. After an illegal touching penalty overruled a ...

by Sean Beckwith|Dan Campbell

|Sun Dec 31 2023

Bowl shenanigans are at full-throat

The great thing about bowl season is it lets fans check in on programs they may not have watched much during the regular season. With 86 teams participating across 43 exhibitions, and little else to do but veg out on football, this seems like a good time for a little peer review. On Thursday, Miami ...

by Sean Beckwith|Thomas Castellanos

|Sat Dec 30 2023

It’s only a matter of time until an employed head coach opts out of a bowl game

College football programs are as volatile as ever during the transfer portal era. This time last year, the USC Trojans were one of the hottest programs in the country. Fast forward to the end of 2023, and the Trojans’ 42-28 win over No. 15 Louisville, without Caleb Williams, felt oddly necessary. ...

by Sean Beckwith|Caleb Williams

|Sat Dec 30 2023

Aaron Rodgers was never going to play and he knew it

There’s a list of things that are more important to Aaron Rodgers than playing quarterback. The first one is that you pay attention to him, above all else. That’s why he has his weekly Viking horn on Pat McAfee’s Douche Emporium For Chads, where he can vocal vomit a decent percentage of the world’s ...

by Sam Fels|Aaron Rodgers

|Wed Dec 20 2023

This is what Eagles fans want

We all knew the truth. Eagles fans weren’t comfortable being the swaggering nobility of the NFL, or even the NFC. Oh, they’ll tell you loudly enough when the Birds, or any Philly team, is good. But it’s at such a volume that it’s easy to sense the insecurity hidden within. Maybe they don’t throw bat...

by Sam Fels|Sports

|Tue Dec 19 2023

We’re being held hostage by bad or pointless football

The first two games of the NFL’s Saturday football lineup featured four backup quarterbacks. Instead of Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins, Anthony Richardson and Kenny Pickett, we got Jake Browning, Nick Mullens, Gardner Minshew and Mitch Trubisky. Thank god for Jared Goff and Russell Wilson in the night gam...

by Sean Beckwith|football

|Mon Dec 18 2023

Ja Morant doesn’t have to wait until next season for redemption

Ja Morant spoke to the media Friday for the first time since the end of last season and the announcement of his 25-game suspension that ends Monday. The Memphis Grizzlies’ All-NBA guard said all of the right things while acknowledging that his behavior is critically more important than a soundbite. ...

by Sean Beckwith|Morant

|Sat Dec 16 2023

This week in sports: Patrick Mahomes' WR is a moron; Rick DeSantis does Rick DeSantis; Man United do themselves in

While it’s hard to resist the temptation to point out noticing when a team that has Matt Nagy anywhere near it is melting down, because I know it oh, so well, the Kansas City Chiefs have bigger problems than that. When everyone is blaming the refs over a totally correct call, it’s pretty obvious the...

by Deadspin Bot|Sports

|Sat Dec 16 2023

For a team that’s going for it, the Dodgers seem to be living on the edge

The Dodgers are certainly the story of the offseason already. Tends to happen when you sign the biggest free agent in history with the biggest contract in history that also is kind of the weirdest contract in history. They’re also not done, apparently. ...

by Sam Fels|Walker Buehler

|Fri Dec 15 2023

In Gaza, one organization struggles to keep children playing

“Now, everything is completely gone,” Tamara Awartani tells me of the afterschool programs her organization, Palestine Sports for Life (PSFL), had established in Gaza for young children (especially girls) who otherwise had no access to football or physical education. “I was able to check on one girl...

by Julie DiCaro|Municipalities of the State of Palestine

|Thu Dec 14 2023

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